Standard English Gematria uses all 26 letters of the alphabet from 1 to 26 while regular English Gematria is like Sir Francis Bacon came up with in the late 16 century using only 24 letters with the "u" and "v" retaining the same number and the "i" and the "j" retaining the same number. The only difference. But by the time of the 1611 KJV, Sir Francis Bacon had shifted to the 26 letters of the Standard English Gematria. It was revealed by the publish date of the 1611 KJV Holy Bible by it being May 2, 1611 with May 2, standing for the upper case of 26 being 52 for May=5 and the Day=2 for 52. The MASONIC letter "G" is also an Upper Case "G" for 26 + 7= 33
Thank you for that. I have another question though, but before I ask it, I'd like to present you with a little riddle of sorts. There is no correct answer, but I think that it's relevant.
Some time back, the government identified a problem with the burial and disposal of nuclear waste: how do we adequately mark it in such a way that a future people would understand the hazard? Symbols may not mean the same things. (My first response upon hearing of the problem was to suggest a skull and perhaps crossbones, as that can only mean one thing across multiple cultures. But apparently 2,000 years ago, it meant rebirth, not death.) They may not speak the same language. One idea was a series of pictures depicting a boy screwing around with an object with a trefoil on it, then getting the trifoil on his chest, and then dying or experiencing distress as a man. But that might not work either, as whatever order we presented the pictures in, a later culture may read things in the other direction and conclude that an ailing old man could "get" the nuclear trefoil and be reborn as a young boy. There were some pretty wild ideas that came from this, with one of my favorites being the "ray cats." (Google it.) In the end, the government decided to just bury it and let the chips fall where they may.
My final idea was a series of nesting blocks with pictures. That way, you would have to physically remove one situation to see the next one, so there would be little chance of misinterpreting what is meant. Inside the repository, this order would be duplicated by a similar stack of blocks. See the pile of drums with trefoils on them? The first block shows the healthy boy. The next block shows him with a trefoil. The next block shows him in distress with a trefoil. Of course, this could still be misinterpreted by a later culture. My next thought was a tribe of post-civilization warriors realizing that the Ancient Ones had shown them the power of their forgotten weapons, and then my head was filled with images of these warriors smearing the contents of the barrels all over themselves, eating it, dumping it into lakes, and basically making a complete mess of things. It would actually make for a good piece of fiction actually, if someone were inclined to tackle it. Humans gonna human.
So here's my question: the Founders weren't stupid. I'm continually impressed by how clever they were. They obviously could not have forseen everything - nuclear weapons, for instance - but they had a good grasp of human nature, and they were obviously interested in history. If they were leaving messages for people that would follow later, would they bury it in the Bible, knowing that languages change, and indeed that the Bible itself might change? Or would they look to something more permanent? The Declaration of Independence is permanent (it's a one time deal and is not a living document), but religion is not, so why tie the two together? These guys must have known how much Christianity had changed over the last 1000 years. It was not a secret, and I would have been very surprised if they had not at least considered the potential impact of the next Martin Luther.
In short, I would not have made the encoding that complicated, particularly when the actual date of signing is a matter of dispute, which it is. And I wouldn't have encoded JESUS into there. I would have encoded a string of names in series that could not be disputed - the names of the Founders, for instance. Admittedly I've never founded a country, but I get the impression that these guys were smarter than I am, and if I'm finding problems with this approach, they likely would have as well.
Did you try email? Yes, I have not heard from them either.
I'm going to be delicate about this. How did you word it? I try to word emails carefully not just because of who might read them, but also what they might think of me. I've had to rewrite emails up my chain of command in the past because if I'd sent what I'd originally written, I would have been escorted from the premises. Phrasing is important.
